To ask teachers if you just accept the inflated holiday prices?

[justoneofthoseyearsagain]

Is there any other way to bring costs down? Looking at a UK break at Christmas and it’s £1600 - the following week it is £600. Obviously not much you can do but does sting a bit!

Never paid high prices for a holiday. Ever!

@LoveBluey

As others have said it's the same for all working parents

But it's not the same - when I was teaching pre-children I still had school holidays as the only time I could go away. Presumably once your children are older you can go back to holidays outside of school holidays. I'm not complaining btw as I'm really grateful to get the time off.

I'm not saying inflated holiday prices isn't a problem , but I think if you are looking at Christmas, that is whole other ball game with regards to one week being expensive and the next not so much, also Easter might be the same, unless I've misunderstood the dates you mean.

Teachers? All parents face this!

Why just teachers?!

But most families don't have children in school for 40 years.

Most parents are not stuck with school holidays once their children are at uni or have left home.

For most families it is a set number of years not an ongoing situation.

They don't have the option of paying a small fine to save a lot of money though.
In workplaces where parents expect to be prioritised when holiday weeks are allocated, being married to a teacher but having no children isn't taken into consideration.

Asking a civil question is hardly whining, maybe civility is lost on you!
Maybe we allow teachers time off in term time for a cheap holiday, like all other parents can for a small fine, and then we'll see who's whining.

When we lived in Germany the school dates were changed so we managed to get cheap ferry prices by booking quickly. Once the ferry company caught on to the change they amended the prices to put our dates in the high rate and expected those who'd already booked to pay the extra! They were unsuccessful.

But still it can be years and years as parents. We had our first in 1997 and the last in 2013.

Btw my husband is a teacher.

It's not only teachers who have this issue.

Ayr?
You mean (Glasgow) Prestwick?

Prices are not "Inflated" in school holidays. They are priced correctly.
The number of people who are logistically able to take holidays out of school holiday times is a lot lower. Holiday providers whose properties stand empty at such times will make a loss.because they still have fixed costs to cover. They therefore deeply discount those holidays to attract the people who are able to holiday then.
Moaning about full priced holidays in standard school holiday time is like moaning that you had to pay full non-sale prices for yoir christmas shopping when you bought stuff on 20th December and yet the same items are now half price on 28th December and you think you ought to have been allowed to buy them at half price on the 20th. It's so obvious that life doesn't work that way. Why would any seller put a sale discount on a popular item at a popular time to buy it? You put discounts onto the things that are more difficult to sell or if you are selling them at a time when they aren't at the peak of their annual popularity cycle.

I do get it that teaching is a hard job. Couldn't do it myself and you must have the patience of saints. Teachers seem to think they are the only people who work hard. Try managing 12 weeks of school holidays with five or six 10/ 11 hour days a week and only six weeks annual leave. I can't go on holidays out if term time either.....and have to pay for childcare... please stop whinging.

Yes teachers accept high prices and hot weather in August. The only comment DH made when I said I wanted to leave teaching was ‘good. Now we don’t have to go away in school holidays’. Not only do teachers have to pay higher prices but they can’t take days off when the washing machine needs repairing. those so called long holidays come at a price.

There is not a choice here. Teacher either go on holiday and pay the high prices or they don't. I can't afford to higher prices so haven't been away for 8 years. Not even in the UK as prices are just as high here.

DH is a teacher. No kids, so it is somewhat annoying to still be restricted to school holidays, but it is what it is.

We do consider when the schools in other countries break up. Where DH works now the school holidays start in late June so we often go to European countries where the holidays start later to take advantage of cheaper accommodation early in the summer. When DH worked in England we'd go to Scandinavia in mid-August, when the schools there had already started again.

Teachers seem to think they are the only people who work hard

I really don't know how you can know what anyone thinks, but I've never heard a teacher say this or seen it written. Ever.

I am actually being made redundant so won't be teaching in September for the first time in my teaching career. We are going to go for a week away in a nice hotel somewhere in the uk and hope it will be a bit cheaper than usual! I will hopefully never do this again so it is a chance for a silver lining I hope!

Northern teacher here. One tip if you’re northern is to have your holiday late August and drive into Scotland for your flight out. Their school holidays end earlier than the English ones so you can get a good deal around late August. Likewise for half terms or even Easter look at other areas of the country and fly from those airports instead.

Generally though, we only take a foreign holiday every second year as it is pricy.

Thing is, I don’t really look at the cheaper price because I can’t go at that time, dont torture yourself. Try some less typical destinations. Barcelona wasn’t very much, neither was Sevillre. Think outside the box.

Also, try to fly on a Tuesday rather than Saturday. Book with people like Expedia where it’s less package based.

Don’t know what I pressed there or why my post has been hiidden. Was just a p s to my post above.

Same issue for many working parents. At least teachers can use any of the school holiday dates so have the choice of 12-13 weeks to go away rather than 5-6 weeks of the year that other parents have. And even then your leave isn’t always granted as your first choice of dates. Plus teachers have the advantage of knowing well in advance ie years of when the holidays will be so can potentially take advantage of booking early. Many working parents won’t even know if they have Christmas off yet and a lot certainly won’t get 2 weeks leave. I would offset the cost mentally by knowing that you don’t need to pay for holiday childcare

Think how much you save on holiday childcare over the year and offset against extra amount holiday costs.